I hadn't heard of this story until a classmate mentioned it at SANS 2009. Thought I'd share it with you as another example of electronically assisted social engineering. Basically, he placed a false ad on Craigslist to create a crowd around a bank truck to make himself less visible. Get the low-tech details at either of these 2 links:

This is why I always make the argument that SE attacks are really attacks of the imagination - this is the kind of thing that makes SE very difficult to defend against. Predictable controls are easily circumvented by an unpredictable attacker.

I hadn't heard of that, but it reminds me a lot of the movie Inside Man where most of the robbers in a bank heist get away by dressing everyone (including themselves) in painters' uniforms and masks and running out of the building with all the hostages. This didn't even require hostages, just a lot of unemployment and some people willing to believe they would make $28/hr for manual labor...